Posts Tagged ‘True Grit’
Chillpak Hollywood Hour #535
August 14, 2017 | 
Author In many ways, this week’s show is a sequel to last week’s episode #534, with the promised celebration of Jeanne Moreau’s life and career, an email from a listener about Tom Jones’ “The Young New Mexican Puppeteer” and more from the British Film Institute List of “the 50 films you should see by the age of 14″.
Unlike most sequels, however, this show is even more irreverent, insightful and informative than last week’s!
The festivities commence with a clip of Dean on Australian television telling a (bestiality?) joke, and then after a special opening (a tribute to Glen Campbell), Dean comes out guns blazing, ranting about the internet speeds of his adopted land. After Phil calms him down, they discuss the news of David Letterman’s new show, they urge people to save the Salem Cinema (a jewel of the Pacific Northwest), they talk about an interview they did with the late Jim Marrs and they continue their discussion about the “death of discernment”, this time focusing on an appalling memo crafted by a then member of the National Security Council.
From there, it’s onto “Celebrity Deaths”, where, in addition to the Femme Fatale of the French New Wave and Glen Campbell, your friends in podcasting remember a Tony-winning star of Broadway’s “The Music Man”, the star of an early television western series turned right-wing anti-government activist, and the man inside the Godzilla costume.
Finally, Dean and Phil discuss a 1982 Australian western, a 1954 western that influenced the likes of Sergio Leone and Sam Peckinpah, the original King Kong, and the Will Rogers comedy Life Begins at 40.
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Chillpak Hollywood Hour #370
Back when YOUR Chillpak Hollywood Hour was just getting started (as “From the Heart of Hollywood”), it’s quite likely that Erynn Petrulis was the youngest listener of the show, teen-ager, living in the UK, who had already acted on-stage with Dean Haglund (while he was touring the UK with his one-man “X-Files” improv).
Now, 7 years later, Erynn is a college graduate and a budding actress, having appeared in dozens of plays and short films. More important, she becomes the youngest guest yet on YOUR Chillpak Hollywood Hour.
So, join us poolside, high atop the historic core of downtown Los Angeles, as the delightful Miss Petrulis swaps stories with her two mentors, your friends in podcasting, Dean Haglund and Phil Leirness.
Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: acting, Atlanta, Charleston, Chicago, college, Dean Haglund, Dean Martin, directing, dragon-con, Earl Holliman, filmmaking, Henry Hathaway, improv, independent film, John Wayne, Marguerite Roberts, Phil Leirness, plays, producing, production, Robert Mitchum, science fiction, short films, South Carolina, Star Trek, television, The Lone Gunmen, The Sons of Katie Elder, The Truth Is Out There, The X-Files, theatre, True Grit, westerns, writing | No Comments »
Chillpak Hollywood Hour #283
Is it all a German dream, or is it just the latest installment of YOUR Chillpak Hollywood Hour?
Whatever it is, your friends in podcasting will change the way you listen to the internet as they tackle such topics as quantum mechanics, Louis CK, Madonna, plastic surgery, dead actors and chamber music. And somehow, almost all of it happens while Dean and Phil talk about such movies as Cloud Atlas, Argo, John Carter, The Paperboy, Skyfall and their friend Alan Piper’s Married and Counting!
All that, plus the most awkward turn-of-phrase ever uttered on YOUR Chillpak Hollywood Hour!
Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: Action Jackson, Airport, Alan Piper, Alex Karras, all-pro, Arclight, Argo, Arrested Development, Avi Lerner, Ben Affleck, Blazing Saddles, Bryan Rasmussen, Carl Weathers, chamber music, Cloud Atlas, Combat Radio, Comedy Film Nerds, David Lynch, Dean Haglund, Detroit Lions, Dodger Stadium, Ethan Dettenmaier, Fandango, foot fetish, Gary Collins, George Clooney, Grant Heslov, Halle Berry, Hangar 18, Hour Magazine, Iran, John Carter, John Cusack, Lee Daniels, Los Angeles podcast festival, Louie, Louis CK, Macy Gray, Madonna, Married and Counting, Matthew McConaughey, Michael Monks, Miss America Pageant, New Kent, NFL, Nicole Kidman, No Country For Old Men, Nu Image, Paramount Pictures, Paramount theme park, Pete Dexter, Phil Leirness, Precious, quantum consciousness, quantum mechanics, Rocky, Roger Deakins, Sam Mendes, Setphanie Erb, Sight and Sound, Skyfall, socks, Staples Center, Street Justice, Susan Sarandon, Taylor Kitsch, Tehmina Sunny, The Bellfllower Sessions, the Hollywood sign, The Last Shot, The Lone Gunmen, The Paperboy, The Truth Is Out There, The X-Files, time, Tom Hanks, Tommy Lee Jones, True Grit, Victor/Victoria, Webster, Whitefire Theatre, William Morris Endeavor, WME, Zac Efron | No Comments »
Chillpak Hollywood Hour #198
It’s Oscar Week here in Hollywood and it’s here on the Chillpak Hollywood Hour Oscar post-game show where the games REALLY begin! Dean and Phil have, as always, ten dollars wagered on the outcome of their predicted winners in all twenty-four categories. Last year, Dean finally notched a win after losing to Phil three consecutive years. Will he maintain that momentum this time around? Find out and enjoy Dean and Phil’s insightful, irreverent and sometimes scathing takes on the motion picture industry’s night of nights. Before the festivities can commence, however, Dean and Phil tantalize you with some details about a trip they took to San Leandro, California, for the UFO X-Fest’s Quest 4 Truth Conference at the historic Bal theatre.
Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: Aaron Sorkin, Academy Awards, Alec Baldwin, Alice in Wonderland, animated films, Anne Hathaway, Annette Bening, Bal Theatre, Barney's Version, Billy Crystal, Bob Hope, box office, Christian Bale, Colin Firth, David Fincher, Dean Haglund, Documetnaries, film, filmmaking, Hailee Stanfield, In Memorium, Inception, independent film, Inside Job, James Franco, Javier Bardem, Jeff Bridges, Jennifer Hudson, Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Brolin, Jude Law, Melissa Leo, movies, Natalie Portman, Oscar pools, Oscars, Phil Leirness, Quest 4 Truth, Robert Downey Jr., San Leandro, Sandra Bullock, short films, The King's Speech, The Lone Gunmen, The Socail Network, The Woflman, The X-Files, Tom Hooper, Toy Story 3, True Grit, UFO X Fest, Witner's Bone | No Comments »
